Plastic bags are light and easy to carry for shopping.
But plastic bags are very bad for the environment. We've seen them at every where: clinging to trees, driffing along footpaths and swirling around in oceans. Plasitic bags can kill thousands of birds and marine animals each year because they swallow them.
Make plastic bags are still bad for the environment because of the harmful greenhouse gasses emitted. Another reason is that plastic bags are a danger for small children, if they put the plastic bag on their heads they can suffocate.
What's the solution? I don't konw. But I agree, when people go shopping and ask for a plastic bag, they pay up to 25 cents for each bag, that can stop the people using them a lot and might remember to bring their own bags.
I wish the government had a good solution so people don't use plastic bags and keep the Australian environment clean.
